Felton in Somerset

Visit Felton and the surrounding villages and stay in bed & breakfast accommodation:

Felton, Northumberland. The barons of Northumberland met at Felton Park on 22 October 1215 to transfer their allegiance from the English King John to Alexander of Scotland. The following year King John burnt down the village. Few other historic events disturbed the village. Thomas Forster managed to raise 70 horsemen here in the 1715 Jacobite uprising. The Duke of Cumberland stopped in 1745 on his way to victory at Culloden. In 1766, John Wesley preached but “very few seemed to understand anything of the matter”. North of the village and away from the road is a Nelson monument erected in 1806 by a friend, Alexander Davison, an army clothing contractor. Two bridges, medieval and modern, span the Coquet River here. St Michael's Church, West of the village, has been altered so often that it is difficult even for experts to work out its dates. It probably is l3th-century heritage, with aisles added in the 14th.